Births, Deaths and Marriages by Laura Barnett (SIGNED & SPRAYED EDGE EDITION, PRE-ORDER)

DATE OF RELEASE: 12 JUN 2025

SIGNED & SPRAYED EDGE EDITION. 

From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, The Versions of Us. A novel about six lifelong friends and one unforgettable year.

Zoe, Al, Rachel, Rob, Yas and Indie.

Six friends who were inseparable at university, who have all had their secret or not so secret passions for each other, their hopes and fears. Over the years, they have gone their separate ways. Rob is a history teacher, with a string of broken relationships behind him.

Yas is a surgeon and very much her own woman. Indie is married and a successful coffee entrepreneur. Rachel is a stay at home mum with two children.

Al, widowed young, is about to take over his father's funeral business. When Rob's engagement party throws the gang together once more, some passions are reignited, old connections and resentments resurface. Over the next twelve months, there will, among the friends, be a birth, a marriage, and a death – but whose?

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES is an era-spanning, globe-trotting novel about love, friendship, and how to stay at least relatively sane in an ever crazier world.

It’s about a group of friends growing older, the possibility of second chances, about kindness and joy. It’s about births, deaths, marriages... and everything in between.

Hardback

Publication: 12 Jun 2025, Doubleday

ISBN: 9780857529718

Extent: 368 pages